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3232Please join us for the next Metro DNA Stakeholder Convening!https://www.metrodna.org/please-join-us-for-the-next-metro-dna-stakeholder-convening/
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:57:54 +0000https://www.metrodna.org/?p=957We are so excited to celebrate progress building and envision next steps for this tremendous collaboration! Please join us at The Alliance Center next Friday for an afternoon and evening full of programming and partners. Please feel free to come for as long or as short a time as you are able and inspired. Thanks in advance for your RSVP using the Eventbrite links below. Fri, Dec 7 @ The Alliance...

]]>Who gets to thrive? A Metro DNA founding story.https://www.metrodna.org/who-gets-to-thrive-a-metro-dna-founding-story/
Sun, 21 Oct 2018 02:27:28 +0000https://www.metrodna.org/?p=933The Spring 2018 issue of the University of Denver Magazine featured Metro DNA as one of several forward-looking sustainability solutions with which DU faculty and students have been engaged. Susan Daggett, Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute and recipient of the 2018 National Wildlife Federation’s Maggie Fox Award for women’s conservation leadership, began the...

]]>Metro DNA welcomes our new Alliance Director!https://www.metrodna.org/metro-dna-welcomes-our-new-alliance-director/
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:23:46 +0000https://www.metrodna.org/?p=805The Metro Denver Nature Alliance Steering Committee is pleased to announce Dana Coelho, as our new – and first – Alliance Director! After an extensive national search we are so excited that Dana has decided to step into this role. We all feel Dana is the perfect person to lead us through this crucial time for Metro DNA and our community. Please see Dana’s letter to us all below. – Metro DNA...

]]>Metro DNA has a New Fiscal Sponsorhttps://www.metrodna.org/metro-dna-has-a-new-fiscal-sponsor/
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:34:55 +0000http://www.metrodenvernaturealliance.org/?p=667Metro DNA has officially become a project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center. Metro DNA thanks the Trust for Public Land for providing fiscal sponsorship for the past several years!

]]>Get Involved: Volunteer on a Committeehttps://www.metrodna.org/get-involved-volunteer-on-a-committee/
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:26:01 +0000http://www.metrodenvernaturealliance.org/?p=664We welcome you to join one of the standing committees that are helping to advance Metro DNA’s programmatic and organizational goals. Below is the contact information for committee chairs, as well as standing meeting times (if available). Communications Committee: Second Tuesdays of the month at 3pm Dana Coelho (USFS): dcoelho@fs.fed.us Delissa Padilla (USFWS): Delissa_padilla@fws.gov Equity...

]]>Metro DNA is Looking for Partners!https://www.metrodna.org/metro-dna-looking-for-partners/
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:06:15 +0000http://www.metrodenvernaturealliance.org/?p=649After several years as an informal, volunteer-led coalition, we are excited to transition to an official partner Alliance. As part of this transition, we soon will become a dues-paying Alliance. From August to September 2018, we will collect dues for the 2019 calendar year. We invite non-profit, government, research, and private sector partners whose work aligns with Metro DNA’s mission to join...

]]>Trust for Public Land Mapping Projecthttps://www.metrodna.org/trust-for-public-land-mapping-project/
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 01:04:34 +0000http://www.metrodenvernaturealliance.org/?p=710With the help of the Trust for Public Land, the Metro Denver Nature Alliance has put together models that analyze access to existing parks and open space. The analysis incorporates a two-step approach: determines where there are gaps in public park availability across the landscape, and constructs a demographic profile to identify gaps with the most urgent need for public parkland, and...